"No, I can't do that." Throughout your lifetime, how many times have you heard somebody say this to your face? Hundreds, thousands, or millions of times, perhaps. Sometimes, we express such skepticism out loud too, particularly when we feel we do not have the skills or knowledge required to perform a particular task. (Note that by "a task," I am referring to a mental and physical activity that requires specific mental and/or physical know-how.)
On some occasions, we perform that particular task only to feel disappointed when it doesn't turn out just the way we predicted. We couldn't do it well and there was no way that we could have done it otherwise. "Remember what I've told you? I said I couldn't do it. Now you see why I couldn't," we often confront the person who insisted on us performing the task regardless of what we said earlier (about our incapability).
For many years, I thought I knew myself quite well when I said I could or couldn't do something (because oftentimes things turned out just the way I predicted). Yet this notion of "I understand myself quite well" completely diminished at the moment I realized the factual way of how things work. When we perceive ourselves as being capable or incapable of performing, we have predetermined an outcome. This is called "conditioning." At the subconscious level, we are pre-wiring our mind to our body and back to our mind to perform an activity up to the predetermined level. Be it a good or a not-so-good one. My observations led me to the conclusion that we are actually capable of being successful in whatever we've preset our mind to do
because the physical state will follow the mental state.
How could it be?
Based on years of delving into observations of how "conditioning" affected my close friends, family members and myself, I found the following interesting discoveries.
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Jennie S. Bev is a business consultant, syndicated columnist and the author of the FabJob.com Guide to Become a Management Consultant
http://www.fabjob.com/managementconsultant.asp?affiliate=236. She has helped many writers, career changers and job seekers achieve their dream jobs through her sites WritingGigs.com and StyleCareer.com.
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